Improvement in weather-boardings



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HUGH L. GLIPPENGER, OF MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-BOARDINGS.

Specification f rming part of Letters Patent No. 164,972, dated June 29, 1875 application filed May 19, 1875.

v To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, HUGH L. OLIPPENGER, of Martinsburg, in the county of Berkeley and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather Boardin g 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical section in line w w of Fig. 1.

a, is the weather-board; Z). the projecting tongue; 0, the ogee mold, and d d the interlapping tongues.

The object of my invention is to secure the Weather-board from decay by Water or rain into the joint by force of the Wind.

The projecting tongue bis for the reception of the spike or nail by which the weatherboard is made fast to the stud. The inter-lapping tongues d. d and the rounded configuration of the ogee mold c prevent the rain from being driven into the joint, and hence preserve the weather-board about the joint and spike from consequent decay, the rounded configuration ot' the ogee mold being such as to cause the Water to run down and off, and not collect vand hang in drops, as it does on the square-edged board to be driven into the joint by the Wind.

I claim as my invention- In the construction of Weather-board, the ogee mold c, in combination with the interlapping tongues d d, arranged to more effectually shed the water, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- HUGH L. OLIPPENGER. Witnesses:

LUTHER MILLER,

J. S. HALDEMAN. 

